MOBILE CANTEEN

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20490, 26 February 1941, Page 8

MOBILE CANTEEN

DOMINION TROOPS GIFT BY EX-SOLDIERS (Por Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Dominion executive of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association has decided to purchase a mobile canteen for New Zealand troops overseas. This has been made possible by the Tasman Trust Fund, of which 50 per cent is to be expended on comforts for New Zealand troops overseas. Tim statement of the Chief of Stall', Major-General Sir John Duigan, regarding appointments to commissioned rank and that in future promotions would be made by the general officer commanding the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Major-General B. C. Freyberg, overseas, was read with atisfaction. Representations are to be made for Tier-eased rates in certain classes of war pensions, war veterans’ allowances and in dependants’ allowances (army). Advice was received from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force Canteen Regimental Funds Trust Board intimating that benevolent (disability) grants were to be continued for a further six months at £SOO a month, and also that a sum of £2OOO would be available 1 as required for necessitous individual cases throughout the Dominion at the discretion of the Dominion executive.

It was reported that the financial membership for the Dominion as at December 31 was 34,272, an increase of about 8000 over the total for the same period last year.